La mastite di una mamma: quando allattare al seno è doloroso (FOTO)

Una mamma ha utilizzato la rete per raccontare la sua esperienza con l’allattamento al seno raccontando una verità un po’ scomoda. Oltre alle tante emozioni dell’allattamento, questo momento intimo con il proprio figlio può essere anche doloroso: ecco la foto della mastite di una mamma.

Ecco la mastite di una mamma: il messaggio diventa virale

La mamma che ha postato la foto si Instagram racconta difficoltà reali. Il suo obiettivo è educare e supportare tutte le mamme che si sono trovate nella sua situazione. A un anno dall’allattamento, questa mamma “coraggiosa” ha spiegato su Instagram che allattare non è stato facile. Brividi di freddo, febbre, pronto soccorso e degenza.

This is mastitis. After hitting the 1 year breastfeeding mark last Sunday I felt compelled to share my story. Breastfeeding did NOT come easy for me. My milk came in after 5 days. I wasn't aware that it could take that long, I didn't even necessarily know what "milk coming in" meant. (Nobody ever taught me.) I was the only mother breastfeeding on my ward. One women did try to breastfeed, but switched to formula after 12 hours because she "had no milk" (nobody taught her either.) While the other babies slept with full bellies, my son screamed and cried attached to my breast through the night. (What was cluster feeding? Nobody told me) When I got home, problems started to arise-my nipple literally cracked in half. I have never felt such pain, I dreaded every feed, but persisted with tears in my eyes until I was healed. (Nobody taught me that breastfeeding could be painful, nobody taught me what a good latch looked like) When feeding my son out in public I would either go to the bathroom or pump at home and feed him with a bottle. Because I felt embarrassed and as though I would make others uncomfortable. This resulted in clogged ducts and engorgement. (I feed freely in public now, and have done for a long time. Fuck this backwards society!) Then came mastitis. I remember waking up at 3am shivering, putting on my dressing gown and extra blankets and trying to feed my son. The pain. It was excruciating. I was shaking and sweating but freezing to my bones. At 5 am I woke up my boyfriend and told him I thought I needed to go to the hospital. We got my stepdad, a doctor, he took my temperature and said it was slightly high, but to take a paracetamol and try and sleep. 7am comes, I've had no sleep, and now I'm vomiting, he takes my temp again. 40 c. I had developed sepsis overnight. This was because I was not able to recognise the more subtle signs of mastitis (as I had seen no redness that day) I was rushed to resus, given morphine, anti sickness and the strongest antibiotics they could give, and separated from my baby for two nights. I was Heartbroken. Continued in comments...

A post shared by MamaClog (@mamaclog) on May 1, 2017 at 12:25pm PDT

Il video della settimana

Allattamento al seno: ora come faccio?

Il suo è un messaggio forte, che si oppone alle logiche della società, in cui la mamma non ha il supporto informativo ed educativo necessario per affrontare l’allattamento al seno con serenità. Brancola nel buio, non riconosce i sintomi di eventuali problemi.

Inutile dire che il racconto di questa mamma è diventato virale, perché ha smosso i cuori di tante donne.